About Us

TekPub is a collaborative effort between GrooveMob (James and Rob) and the excellent authors that have trusted us with their content. Our idea is simple: Techbooks pretty much suck most of the time and you end up spending a whole mess of money when really what you want is to spend less time (and money) and learn from the people you trust. We’ve written books before and generally it’s OK, but the process is long and involved and is not terribly compelling for the authors (unless they like torture). Once something is written, however, it’s done and committed to history. These books are good for a year, maybe 2 and then you get to pay more for another one. We think this is a bit silly - not to mention wasteful - and you have better things to do with your time other than deciding what book to buy (and when to read it).

We Are…

Rob Conery: recently worked at Microsoft on the ASP.NET team. He is the creator of SubSonic and was the chief architect of the Commerce Starter Kit (a free, Open Source eCommerce platform for .NET). He lives in Kauai, Hawaii, with his wife and two daughters (Maddy and Ruby). James Avery is the founder and president of Zerk Media LLC, which runs The Lounge and Ruby Row advertising networks. James is also the founder and owner of Infozerk Inc. which provides .NET and Ruby consulting. James has been working with .NET since 2001 and has been a web developer since 1996. He has written books for Microsoft Press, Wrox, and O’Reilly Press. James has written articles for MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobbs.

Contributing Authors

We are proud to feature some of the best and brightest authors in the industry. Oren Eini: Oren, aka Ayende Rahien, is experienced developer / architect focusing on the CLR and building business application and developer productivity frameworks and tools. Oren is an active member of several open source projects (NHibernate, Castle) and the founder of several others (Rhino Mocks, NHibernate Query Analyzer, Rhino Commons, etc).